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Originally Posted by Bob Dole
There's actually a restaurant about an hour west of here that has a non-smoking section. It's the little claustrophobic room in the back.
And Bob Dole typed up most of a grant proposal once that actually attempted to study the smoking/non-smoking thing by building duplicate restaurants with rotating staff and a common parking lot. There's a ton of different things that could be studied: attendance, total average ticket, length of stay, revenue per minute of stay, etc.
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We use to have an old style diner here in town, that specifically catered to smokers. He let people smoke, had ash trays on the tables, counters, etc. He didn't have a non smoking section. When people complained, he pointed to the door. He had a thriving business, as the beleaguered smokers ate there regular as it was the only haven they had to go and enjoy an old fashioned ham and eggs breakfast, black coffee, and a smoke for desert.
They weren't hurting anybody, and they weren't breaking any laws. There was no gun being pointed at anybodies head telling them, they had to go eat there. Just understand it, there WILL BE SMOKE HERE. Don't bitch if you come in.
But the "do gooders" went in anyway and kept raising hell with him, just because they had to have their fuggin way, I mean, that poor bastard was killing people after all.
So the place has a grease fire in the kitchen one day. I am sure it was an accident, and he got the phug out of business.
Now everyone will live to be a hundred and two, just like Jimmy the Cricket use to say.